Archie Connor, a twelve-year-old victim of early 20th century poverty, is determined to carry out the wishes of his dying mother to keep the family together and look after the newly born, unnamed boy, Our Nipper.Archie evades the authorities as they remove his siblings to the workhouse. Thus begins his quest to find his lost family again, a painful journey marked with hope and despair. Will they be reunited or has he lost them forever to the devastation of war, or to the rampaging Spanish flu?

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